Yes, the Washington Post did just publish this…
What is it about us women? Why do we always fall for the hysterical, the superficial and the gooily sentimental?
…amazingly insulting column by Charlotte Allen…
The theory that women are the dumber sex — or at least the sex that gets into more car accidents — is amply supported by neurological and standardized-testing evidence. Men’s and women’s brains not only look different, but men’s brains are bigger than women’s (even adjusting for men’s generally bigger body size)…
…So I don’t understand why more women don’t relax, enjoy the innate abilities most of us possess (as well as the ones fewer of us possess) and revel in the things most important to life at which nearly all of us excel: tenderness toward children and men and the weak and the ability to make a house a home. (Even I, who inherited my interior-decorating skills from my Bronx Irish paternal grandmother, whose idea of upgrading the living-room sofa was to throw a blanket over it, can make a house a home.) Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts’ content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim.
…headlined We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get? If Allen had restricted her analysis to herself and the editors at the Washington Post, I’d be inclined to agree with them.